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Mareew Free Eraser v1.1.3

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

Mareew Free Eraser wipes the content of the files and metadata, making private data and sensitive information completely unrecoverable.

File systems supported: NTFS 4 and 5, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems.

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System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware. Site claims to be GPL'd but source is not present.
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. The application files are in the $INSTDIR folder.
  3. Launch Mareew Free Eraser.exe.

DriveCleanup v0.8.1

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

DriveCleanup removes all currently non present "Storage Volumes", "Disk", "CDROM", "Floppy" USB drives and their USB devices from the device tree. Furthermore it removes orphaned registry items related to these device types. Both are not removed by similar programs on the site and take up space on the registry, eventually slow down a computer over time.

To preview program actions, start with argument -T (test mode).

Category:
System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch drivecleanup.exe either in the 'Win32' folder or 'x64' folder.
Latest comments
guinness on 2009-12-22 18:37

Drag the file into the 'Run' box (WinKey + R) then after the long string which is the file location type " -T" but without the quotes. Make sure you include the SPACE before "-"

webfork on 2010-05-28 22:34

Worked great on a 6 month old system, cleaning up 33 registry keys that were doing absolutely nothing for me.

TP109 on 2011-06-18 02:02

Useful app. Cleaned up over 75 obsolete entries on a laptop.

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Square Privacy Cleaner v1.2.1.0

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

Square Privacy Cleaner is a fast, powerful, and easy to use privacy protection tool, able to remove all the unwanted history data on your computer.

Category:
System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SPCleaner.exe.
What's new?
  • Added support for cleaning of more Mozilla Firefox traces
  • Added support for cleaning traces of Azureus, TeamViewer, Pidgin, XChat, Google Toolbar
  • Optimized cleaning of traces of Microsoft Office Suite, RealPlayer, FlashPlayer and Java
  • Optimized cleaning of traces of Recent Files for Windows 7 OS
  • Added support for cleaning traces of Feeds Cache, WER and Cryptnet Url Cache
  • Added support for cleaning traces of Silverlight Cache
  • Added support for cleaning traces of Lunascape, Pale Moon, QtWeb, Comodo Dragon, ChromePlus
  • Added "Beep when cleaning of traces has finished" in Settings
  • Added "Beep when scanning for traces has finished" in Settings
  • Added "Scan for Thumbs.db files (slow)" in Settings
  • Added support for cleaning traves of Internet Explorer DOM Store, IETldCache, Google Earth Cache
  • Added bold font in "Analyze" btn
  • Added new mainmenu "Empty" -> DNS Cache
  • Added new mainmenu "Empty" -> Clipboard Cache
  • Added new mainmenu "Empty" -> Recycle Bin
  • Minor optimizations
Latest comments
Jimmy Neutron on 2010-10-31 14:24

If you close this program using the usual Windows red "X" in the top right corner, it will leave SPCleaner.exe running in Task Manager (and an inactive icon in system tray). Instead, you MUST pull down the file menu and choose exit to actually shut this program down. That's pretty rude going against Windows conventions.

joe on 2011-01-08 12:16

This app deleted everything an a mounted TrueCrypt volume.

Mike.S.G. on 2011-04-04 13:13

@Gary, Jimmy Neutron & joe

I hope you reported these issues to the dev? It can't be fixed that which is unknown :)

... http://www.novirusthanks.org/contacts/
... http://www.novirusthanks.org/support/

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Flush Flash v1.0

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

Flush Flash is a simple way to remove all Flash cookies and improve your privacy. More advertisers are using Flash cookies in wake of more users removing those normally on the browser. A much faster and easier way versus Adobe's own Settings Manager.

Category:
System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download flushflash.exe to a folder of your choice and launch.
Latest comments
juvera on 2012-05-28 04:28

Removing Flash cookies is not enough.
What about the HTML5 varieties, the Silverlight, the ETAgs, etc?
http://samy.pl/evercookie/

Midas on 2012-05-28 13:24

Nice find juvera. That Evercookie site seemed bent on making itself it own proof of concept -- as I have flash execution blocked, it tried (unsuccessfuly, alas) to spawn a new flash object every few seconds... (See http://minus.com/l5ecx3WJdYUWs)

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CleanAfterMe v1.37

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

CleanAfterMe allows you to easily clean files and registry entries automatically created by Windows during regular computer activity. You can clean the cookies/history/cache/passwords of Internet Explorer, the 'Recent' folder, the last opened files, temporary Windows folders, the event logs, the Recycle Bin etc.

The program includes an optional basic wipe of deleted files for extra security.

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CleanAfterMe.exe.
What's new?
  • Removed the option to delete .eml cache files of Windows Live Mail. This option was good for HotMail and IMAP accounts, but for POP3 accounts, it might delete real email messages.
Latest comments
NirSoft fan on 2008-12-14 05:25

From the app's version history:
Version 1.21 - Fixed bug: In some computers, when cleaning USB devices, the USB mouse/keyboard devices were also removed, and the user had to unplug and plug them again.

Indie on 2008-12-14 06:38

Thanks all.

After starting the system later during the day, it got logged in without asking for any password. Does it mean that the prog has got a copy of the pwd when enables an automatic log in considering the fact that some startup entries were removed and a new desktop startup entry was added (as per Spybot)?

webfork on 2010-10-05 18:31

I ran 3 other major cleaner programs here on the site (Bleechbit, CCleaner, and PureRA) and this program still found more to delete. If you're using an public computer, this seems to be THE program to run before you leave.

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